Lightsey Darst reflects on the phenomenon of performance as museum piece, in particular this fall’s dance/visual art installation by Eiko and Koma at the Walker, with a brief notation on Laurie Van Wieren’s retrospective, “Who Made These Videotapes?”

“Tron: Legacy”? How about “Tron: Tedious,” instead? Clunky, episodic and dull, “Tron: Legacy” constantly interrupts the action for dopey philosophical mumbo-jumbo, so it feels like an adventure movie as written by Deepak Chopra.

The 2010 reboot is a sequel rather than a remake, and for the most part writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and director Joseph Kosinski are content with replicating and modestly extending that original world.

Carrey gives one of his most deeply felt performances in the based-on-true “Phillip Morris”… The trouble is that, while Carrey is transforming himself into a guy who fills a hole in his soul with a big big love, Ewan McGregor is barely skimming the surface of his (admittedly underwritten) nice-guy role.

– Chris Hewitt, Pioneer Press

Danger and dread will dig into your gutIsabelle Huppert stars in “White Material,” a film built on unsettling contrasts. One of the many quietly shocking things in “White Material” is the title itself.

Musical theater is an art form that customarily asks you to suspend your disbelief. After all, real life rarely involves people bursting into song to express their feelings or tell a story. But “All Is Calm” is something else. It has the kind of slice-of-reality feel that you might expect from a documentary film.